Sentence examples similar to seize a concept from inspiring English sources
Claimants for compensation will have to prove before a judge that they really owned the land they claim, and that it was unjustly seized (a flexible concept: a judge might accept that the late dictator Anastasio Somoza had indeed awarded himself legal title to some land he had got hold of, but that its confiscation after he was overthrown in 1979 was fair enough).
Once Mr. Alden seizes on a concept, he tends to take it all the way, sometimes too much so, as in his fascinating production of Mozart's "Così Fan Tutte" for City Opera, which was, by the end, terribly bleak.
When they seize an opportunity to murder him, so far has the concept of Christian charity been abused that it seems almost reasonable.
They also seized a 2006 BMW Z4.
Detectives seized a laptop from the room.
Mr Blair had seized a political opportunity.
Distracted, churlish, and unruly, they seized a moment of human inattention to wander off into mayhem.
"We need to seize these two concepts — red bases and patriotic education on the one hand and developing red tourism on the other," he said in a March 2014 speech.
He seized an opportunity.
"Wilson seized an opportunity.
